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EPA moves to unwind over two dozen US air, water regulations

The Trump administration announced a wave of regulatory rollbacks on Wednesday that included a repeal of emissions limits on power plants, reduced protections for waterways and a rollback of tailpipe pollution curbs in an effort to deliver on President Donald Trump's energy dominance agenda.

The Washington Post on MSN · 4h

EPA moves to dismantle dozens of Biden’s environmental rules

The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will narrow the definition of wetlands, rivers and other waterways that receive federal protections.

USA TODAY · 7h

EPA says it's cutting back on 'waters of the United States' rules ag interests oppose

After a U.S. Supreme Court decision narrowing wetland protections, the EPA says it will revamp rules many farmers have long opposed.

Reuters on MSN · 9h

EPA moves to narrow regulation of US waterways

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced that it will narrow the definition of waters that can be federally regulated to comply with a 2023 Supreme Court decision, a move cheered by Republican lawmakers in agricultural states.

News Nation on MSN · 5h

EPA signals it could narrow Clean Water Act protections

The law requires the EPA to protect so-called “waters of the United States” but there has been significant political back-and-forth.

environmental justice, EPA and Presidency of Donald Trump

USA TODAY · 4h

Why the EPA is removing environmental justice offices? Closures are in response to Trump's orders on DEI

The Environmental Protection Agency will close all environmental justice offices which are responsible for addressing pollution in poor communities.

CBS News on MSN · 9h

EPA eliminating environmental justice jobs

The positions will be eliminated "immediately," according to a memo by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.

The New York Times · 21h

E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices

An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

42mon MSN

EPA takes aim at water, air and toxics protections as part of massive deregulation campaign

As Zeldin's EPA announced reconsideration of these standards, it released a statement saying, the regulations imposed, "$700 ...

7hon MSN

US EPA to reconsider Biden clean power plant rule

The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Wednesday it plans to reconsider a Biden administration regulation that ...

2hon MSN

EPA head seeks to roll back dozens of environmental regulations: ‘ushering in America’s Golden Age'

If approved after a lengthy process that includes public comment, the Trump administration’s actions will eliminate trillions ...

46mon MSN

EPA head launches 31 actions to roll back air, water rules in 'greatest day of deregulation'

Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin said the agency has launched "the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history ...

7hon MSN

EPA to Reconsider Legal Basis of US Climate Change Rules

The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it will reconsider the Obama administration’s so-called endangerment ...

3hon MSN

EPA workers silenced as agency cancels hundreds of grants

EPA staffers have been told they are prohibited from communicating with grantee partners they are supposed to monitor, according to multiple sources inside the agency.

3hon MSN

EPA likely to move to further limit federal protections for wetlands

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation's bedrock clean water law and ...

Daily Post Nigeria on MSN1d

US EPA cancels 400 non-essential grants worth $1.9bn, saves $2bn

The administrator of the United States of America Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, cancelled 400 DEI and ...

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